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Accident And Sick Rate In Maritime Industry Declined During 1968 The accident and illness rate in the maritime industry continued a down-ward trend during the year 1968, according to the annual analysis of injury and illness statistics released in New York City by the Marine In-dex Bureau, Inc. Bruno J. Augenti, president of the MIB, an industry-wide agency estab-lished in 1937 which records reported illnesses and injuries of seamen, said that the average number of jobs (54,000) during 1968 produced a combined injury and illness total of 40,801 ? a decline to 75.6 percent from 79.7 percent recorded on the same number of seamen's jobs in 1966. The 1967 statistics covered an average of 57,000 jobs and the illness-injury frequency rate for that year was 77.5 percent. "This decline of 4.1 percentage points in just two years" he said, "continues a down-ward trend which began after the combined injury and illness percent-age reached the record high level of 91.2 percent in 1963." The Bureau's analyses of seamen's injuries and illnesses are based on re-ports received involving seamen em-ployed aboard privately owned, ocean-going U.S.-flag ships of 1,000 gross tons and over, and those on govern-ment-owned vessels operated under General Agency Agreement and Navy Dredges owned, contract operated tankers and Atlantic range missile tracking ships. The annual average number of sea-faring jobs is based on monthly re-ports of employment aboard these vessels as published in the U.S. De-partment of Commerce, Maritime Ad-ministration Merchant Marine Data-sheet, "Manpower." The statistics exclude seamen and seafaring jobs aboard Civil Service manned MSTS ships and those on the Great Lakes and Inland Waterways. Fort Schuyler Alumni Elects Maley President Capt. James M. Maley The election of Capt. James M. Maley USNR (ret.) as president of the Alumni Association of the New York State Maritime College, was announced recently. Captain Maley, Class of 1931, is a retired member of the Maritime College faculty, and is now with the Continental Insurance Com-panies. He is a commissioner of pilots of New York State and a member of the executive council of the State University of New York Alumni Confederation. He succeeds Abraham Rosenburg, under whom he had served as vice-president for two years. Other officers elected were Capt. Brian McAllister and C. P. Georgio-poulos, vice-presidents; Raymond P. Hayden, secretary, and Prof. Lester A. Dutcher, treasurer. Elect-ed to the executive committee were Peter R. Bresman, Arthur S. Coe, and Capt. Martin F. Horwath. Ogden Acquires Race Tracks, Golf Club, Motel And Real Estate Ralph E. Ablon, chairman of the board of Ogden Corporation, and James F. 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